When Wilfred met Siegfried

CELEBRATE the CENTENARY
of the War Poet's historic meeting and hear the war poems composed there in the summer of 1917 by Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, recited by Sam Grey of the Wilfred Owen Association and David Wilson of the Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship, with extracts from their letters and diaries, read by Yvonne Morris of the Wilfred Owen Association.

Please contact Fiona MacDonald:fiona@wilfredowen.org.uk ~ 07980 631 110
to reserve places or for further information.
Entry and refreshments are free.

A series of events commemorating the centenary of the time Wilfred Owen spent in Edinburgh with thanks to a grant from Awards for All details can be found here.

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The Wilfred Owen Assocation is saddened to hear of the passing of Robert Hardy CBE. We are grateful for his long-standing support as Vice-President of the Association and offer our condolences to his family and friends at this time.

After many delays and false starts had prolongued his evacuation by a month, on 10th June Wilfred finally got a train to Étrétat, where he was in No.1 General Hospital, staffed by Americans. Having spent a week there, he travelled in a single cabin in a luxurious liner to Southampton on the 16th. After a further 9 days at the Welsh Hospital at Netley, where he was visited by his cousin Leslie Gunston, he was allowed to travel to London.

The image of a section of the Anthem for Doomed Youth manuscript at the head of this page is reproduced with kind permission of the British Library.

All photographs of Wilfred Owen reproduced on this website are the copyright of The English Faculty Library, University of Oxford / The Wilfred Owen Literary Estate.

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